Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives

This book presents selected papers from the 32nd Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference - Istanbul. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, the conference presentation mode has been switched to 'online/virtual presentation only'. The theoretical and empirical papers gathered here cover diverse areas of business, economics and finance in various geographic regions, including not only topics from HR, management, finance, marketing but also contributions on public economics, political economy and regional studies.

Mehmet Huseyin Bilgin is a Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). He has also held visiting faculty positions at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (USA), Jacksonville University (USA), Zagreb University (Croatia), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Prof. Bilgin has published many articles in reputable international journals and is the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He is the founder and current Chairman of the Istanbul Economic Research Association, and the founder and current Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES, Turkey). He has also been active as a consultant to several institutions, as a newspaper columnist, and featured in several television programs.

Hakan Danis is the Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and Director in the Credit Strategies Group at the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). He has previously worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA as a Senior Economist. He is one of the founders and first President of the EBES. He has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He served as the guest editor at the Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and Singapore Economic Review, and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics. He holds a PhD degree in economics from Terry College of Business at University of Georgia (USA)..

Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Istanbul Medeniyet University (Turkey). Dr. Demir is the founder and conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). He serves as the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Business Review (Springer), and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Multinational Financial Management. He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals such as the Annals of Tourism Research, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. His research interests are in corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.

Conrado Diego Garcia Gomez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Valladolid (Spain). He teaches subjects related to financial market and corporate finance. He has a doctorate in Business Economics from the University of Burgos (Interuniversity Program together with the Universities of Leon, Valladolid and Salamanca with a European mention) with a thesis on corporate risk and institutional investors in the 2008 financial crisis context. He received a summa cum laude degree. He is currently the academic secretary of the Faculty of Business and Labor Sciences of the University of Valladolid at its University Campus in Soria. He has several publications in indexed journals in the first quarters of JCR such as Finance Research Letters, Business Research Quarterly, Tourism Management. Eurasian Business Review or Research in International Business and Finance. His work has been presented in several national and international conferences. He has been visiting scholar at the University of Porto (Portugal) and visiting professor at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), University of Pau et des Pays de l'Adour (France) and the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). His research interests are focused on the study of corporate risk-taking and how it is affected by various financial decisions. He has also papers related to behavioral finance, culture and finance, and financial analysis for hospitality companies.